| Description |
xii, 396 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Contemporary social theory |
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Contemporary social theory (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Contents |
Introduction / Anthony Elliott -- Pt. I. The Theory of the Subject. 1. The Obsolescence of the Freudian Concept of Man / Herbert Marcuse. 2. Language and Speech / Roland Barthes. 3. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience / Jacques Lacan. 4. Revolution in Poetic Language / Julia Kristeva. 5. The Individual and Representation / Cornelius Castoriadis -- Pt. II. Social Structure and Institutional Analysis. 6. The Means of Correct Training / Michel Foucault. 7. Structures, Habitus, Practices / Pierre Bourdieu. 8. Elements of the Theory of Structuration / Anthony Giddens. 9. Society Turns Back upon Itself / Alain Touraine. 10. The Concept of Society / Niklas Luhmann. 11. Individualization and "Precarious Freedoms": Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-orientated Sociology / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- Pt. III. Contemporary Critical Theory. 12. The Uncoupling of System and Lifeworld / Jurgen Habermas. 13. Patterns of Intersubjective Recognition: Love, Rights and Solidarity / Axel Honneth. 14. Truth, Semblance, Reconciliation: Adorno's Aesthetic Redemption of Modernity / Albrecht Wellmer -- Pt. IV. Race, Multiculturalism, Difference. 15. DissemiNation: Time, Narrative and the Margins of the Modern Nation / Homi K. Bhabha. 16. Sigmund Freud and the Epistemology of Race / Sander L. Gilman. 17. Masters, Mistresses, Slaves, and the Antinomies of Modernity / Paul Gilroy. 18. Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Pt. V. Feminism, Gender, and Sexual Difference. 19. Gender Personality and the Reproduction of Mothering / Nancy Chodorow. 20. This Sex Which Is Not One / Luce Irigaray. 21. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire / Judith Butler. 22. Living with Uncertainty / Jeffrey Weeks. 23. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective / Donna J. Haraway -- Pt. VI. The Modernity/Postmodernity Debate. 24. Postmodernism / David Harvey. 25. The Postmodern Condition / Jean-Francois Lyotard. 26. The Precession of Simulacra / Jean Baudrillard. 27. The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism / Fredric Jameson. 28. Feminism and the Question of Postmodernism / Seyla Benhabib. 29. Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence / Zygmunt Bauman |
| Analysis |
Sociology |
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Social sciences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Elliott, Anthony
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| LC no. |
98047773 |
| ISBN |
0631206493 |
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0631206507 |
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